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The Ottoman State spreading over three continents with conquests, set policies in order to manage this vast geography well and thus consolidate its domination. One of these policies is the conduct of censuses to evaluate population and economic resources, necessary for the state's planning. Detailed taxation and accounting icmal registers between 16th and 17th centuries, avarız and jizya registers kept in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the Temettuat books of the 19th century assessed periodically cash and real wealth of the Ottoman Empire. These registers are a wealth of information for historical studies as they contain significant data in terms of settlement and population.This study, based on these data, aims to examine information about the population, settlement and the continuity of these settlements in Arhavi between the years 1583-1681/1682. For this purpose, the study compared data with regard to Arhavi's administrative status in 1583 and estimated population to the Avârız register of1681/1682. Combined with information from the mühimme registers it is apparent that the struggle of the ottoman empire with the the Celali Revolts in addition to the ongoing wars in Europe and the Caucasus resulted into significant population and status changes between the years 1583-1681/1682 in the region of Fındıklı, Arhavi, Hopa and Gonio districts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tahrir Registers are records of all kinds of income and taxes collected in the Ottoman Classical Age. These registers of land and tax records may also contain information about the Ottoman socio-economic structure. Besides land and tax records, they contain information about the characteristics of the population (married, single, elderly, disabled), religious affiliation, population mobility, regional diversity of agricultural and industrial production, and tax exemption status by profession. In addition, they give information about professions and according to production which professions were more in the forefront. This study evaluates the professions of the Armenian population in Anatolia in the 16th century based on Tahrir Registers. Data from the Tahrir Registers of the sanjaks and kazas of Adana, Adilcevaz, Ankara, Arabgir, Ayntab, Bargiri, Bayburd, Behisni, Beriyyecik, Birecik, Bitlis, Bozok, Canik, Çapakçur, Çemişgezek, Çermik, Divriği, Diyarbekir, Elbistan, Erciş, Ergani, Erzincan, Erzurum, Harput Hınıs, Hısn-ı Mansur, Karahisar-ı Şarkî, Kars-ı Maraş, Kayseri, Kemah, Kiğı, Malatya, Maraş, Mardin, Niğde, Pasin, Ruha, Sis, Sivas, Siverek, Sultanönü, Şelve, Tarsus, Trabzon, Tokat, Van were taken into account. The paper made a general evaluation of the professions of Armenians in the Mid-East Anatolia and analyzed the data according to regional differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is concerned with the changes and transitions in Turkish population between the last term of the Ottoman Empire and 1950s of the Turkish Republic caused by such factors as wars in the first place, epidemic diseases and immigration. In the first years of the 20th century, the size and development of the population of the country in terms of quantity and quality was regarded to be an indicator of the governments' military, political and economic power. In this regard, the Turkish Republic inherited an important problem defined as the missing population from the Ottoman Empire. This issue was examined and explained with the theoretical approach of the demographic transition theory which is regarded as a derivative of modernization theory. This theory has three phases and the first phase of this theory which is called the policy of population increase (pronatalist) was the population policy of the Republic between 1923-1955. As a result of the population increasing policy, the decline in the crude death rate of Turkey and the increase in rough fertility rate, population growth rate increased dramatically. As a result of the population policies applied in this term, Turkey's population increased from 13 million to 24 million between 1923-1955, which meant its population almost doubled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Çukurova region where had been the land of the Cilicia Armenian Kingdom since the 11th century subordinated to the Ramazanoğulları Principality in the 14th century and then by the year 1517, after Yavuz Sultan Selim's Egypt campaign, annexed to Ottoman land. Particularly during the Ramazanoğulları and Ottoman period, with intensive Turkmen nomads' migrations towards the region, demographic changes occurred in the region. In the 16th century Armenians of the region settled down in downtowns and castle cities. After the middle of this century, with migrations to other districts, Armenian population decreased against the Muslim population. Contrary to its historical background Çukurova region does not seem to have an intensive Armenian population in the 16th century. In this article, population and settlement of Armenians of Çukurova province in the 16th century were studied based on Ottoman Tahrir registers. Within this context, both Armenian and Muslim taxpayers' population changes by years in Adana, Tarsus, Sis and Üzeyr sanjaks of Çukurova province were examined comprehensively and comparatively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sivas was the administrative center of the region first called Eyalet-i Rüm (Province of Romans) and subsequently Sivas Province (named after the city) during the Ottoman period. There are only a limited number of studies/researches on Sivas, despite its certain significance as an administrative center during the Ottoman period. The present study aims to investigate the demographic structure of the city before the Tanzimat (Reorganization) period. The basic resource of the study is the two population ledgers as registered upon the results of the census conducted in Sivas, in 1833. The Muslim and non-Muslim populations of the city had been registered in separate books during the census. The demographic structure of the city before the Tanzimat period was ascertained in detail upon assessment of the data obtained from the above ledgers. Accordingly, the first part of the study involves the determining the citywide size of population and households as well as a review of the city population in terms of such attributes as age, occupation, religion, and language. The second part focuses on the horizontal population movements in the city. A detailed review of the data obtained from the population ledgers suggests that the city had two-way horizontal population movements, i.e. there was migration both into and out of the city. Two concepts are used in reviewing the horizontal population movements: People migrating into the city are called migrants and those migrating out of the city are called gurbetçi (expats). Both the migrants and gurbetçi areseparately examined as regards occupation, age, and ethnic/religious origins. Furthermore, the situation of the migrants and gurbetçi in the general population is also reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]